It’s Episode 418 and I’ve got plugins for Forms & Surveys, Cron Management, Data Base management, and ClassicPress Options. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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We are only 2 Episodes away from 420 and I am lining up some great stoner plugins for your website.
I have a great set of plugins for you today!
To start off I have a plugin that I have yet to use but thought you might want to know it exists. Keep in mind the ratings are based off the descriptions on their site and using their demo if available.
Sent in by Maarten Behr
Tripetto – A full WordPress plugin for smart forms and surveys (freemium)
https://tripetto.com
https://wordpress.org/plugins/tripetto
What they say:
Equip your websites with deeply customizable conversational form and survey experiences – built and deployed within WordPress with the comprehensive Tripetto plugin.
Forget about embedding externally created conversational forms and existing, flawed builders for WordPress. The Tripetto plugin includes a visual editor with wide form and survey building capabilities. Use its self-organizing drawing board to build crispy conversational experiences with powerful logic, and see your creations come to life in the real-time preview.
// Form builder features //
– Visual form building
– Rich question types
– Advanced logic
// Available blocks //
– Dropdown
– E-mail address
– File Upload
– Matrix
– Multiple choice
– Number
– Paragraph
– Password
– Quote
– Rating
– Static Text
– Text (single and multiple lines)
– URL
– Yes/No
– E-mail confirmations for submitter (coming next week)
– More coming soon…
// Form Deployment //
Get creative with extensive theming options and embedding attributes for making the forms and surveys match your WordPress theme to boost both the experience and response. A simple shortcode is enough to put your interactions right where you want them in your WordPress front-end. The all-inclusive collection engine then handles UI rendering, UX, form logic and response delivery to you.
// Form deployment features //
Deploy forms and surveys to your front-end with a shortcode
Deeply customizable form UI
Fullscreen overlay option
// Response Handling //
Response is stored in your WordPress install. The plugin is an all-in-one solution, which means you won’t need third party applications for storing collected data because form entries go exclusively into your WordPress install first. Bye data lock-in. Hello there, GDPR!
// Response handling features //
– E-mail and Slack notifications
– Response storage in WordPress Admin
– Data dashboard and exports to CSV
– Zapier integration for connecting to 1.500+ apps
// Premium Features //
Upgrade the Tripetto WordPress plugin and greatly enhance all your conversational forms and surveys. Get your Premium license today!
All standard and premium features will be completely free for a single form or survey of your choosing – with the premium features also being available as a paid upgrade for your other creations.
– Theming and styling
– Remove Tripetto branding
– Custom goodbye page
– Slack notifications
– Zapier integration
– Updates and support
https://wordpress.org/plugins/tripetto
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/tripetto-for-wordpress
Rating 4 Dragons
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WordPress news and info
Just a note as I have gotten more into Elementor and what I keep reading about Gutenberg, well gutenberg is just becoming a hard to use fancy page/theme builder as was predicted back on november of last year.
All-in-One WP Migration 7.0 Patches XSS Vulnerability
https://wptavern.com/all-in-one-wp-migration-7-0-patches-xss-vulnerability
Yoast SEO 11.7: Are podcasts the new blogs?
https://yoast.com/yoast-seo-11-7/
Multiple Vulnerabilities in the WordPress Ultimate Member Plugin
https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/05/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-the-wordpress-ultimate-member-plugin.html
9 Ways to Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment in WordPress
https://torquemag.io/2019/07/reduce-shopping-cart-abandonment/
Fun news you can get all the Apollo 11 code on GitHub https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
Johns news:
Plugin Dynamics is starting to come to life and we have 4 plugins just about ready for general testing plus 3 more in the cue.
Date Calculator
Metric Conversions
Clock de Resistance
Tabular Data dynamics
In the development cue
the Tarot Reading plugin
All coming soon to https://PluginDynamics.com
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The current contest is running until July 31, 2019 and we are giving away a license for the WP Pay Per View plugin reviewed in Episode 411.
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Advanced Cron Manager – debug & control (freemium)
https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-cron-manager/
The Lowdown:
From time to time you will encounter issues with your WP-Cron and need to know what happening with it. You may have stuck events or you may want to delete or add new schedules to your cron list.
Use this to manage aspects of your cron including disabling the WP cron and using a real cron job though your server.
Rating 4 Dragons
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Next up I have:
WP-Optimize – Clean, Compress, Cache.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/
The Lowdown:
I have reviewed this plugin in the past as a simple way to clean up your database but it looks like they have stepped up their game and ventured into the caching business. WP-Optimize now not only cleans your database but you can use it to compress your images and to cache your website.
Aside from doing the DB cleanup you can now
compress PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP and TIF pictures up to 5MG in size, and it’s packed with other useful features, including:
- Bulk compression, allowing you to compress multiple existing images at the same time.
- Intelligent, multi-pass lossy compression algorithm, which gives you twice the compression with much less loss of resolution.
- ‘Restore Originals’ function, which allows you to retrieve or revert back to your original images at any point.
- Auto-compress function, which automatically compress images as they’re added to the site.
- EXIF Data-Keeping means image information is retained even once the image is compressed.
- ‘Compress Big Files function’ allowing you to compress images up to 64MB- much higher than any other plugin.
You can also cache your WordPress posts and pages as static files, thus reducing the processing load on the web server (and preventing overload if PHP and MySQL are used), which helps to improves your website’s speed and performance.
With minimal configuration, the plugin is easy to use and has a load of useful features, including:
- Cache Preloading to ensure the cache is always ready and loaded
- Gzip Compression of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to reduces site load time.
- Device-Specific Cache to ensure the optimized page version is always served.
- Advanced Exclude Rules, so that you can cache almost anything by excluding logged in users, specific URLs or cookies.
- Browser Cache to instruct client browsers to reuse resources (HTML, CSS, JS) if no changes were made since the last request.
Some nice improvements to this plugin.
Rating 4 Dragons.
ClassicPress Options
Since the release of Gutenberg, and its fallout, ClassicPress has garnered a lot of attention. This is a fork of WordPress and is focused on Business Websites and is looking pretty good. It does seem in the past few months ClassicPress is coming into its own a bit and with some plugins now being created specifically for ClassicPress I do believe it has a future.
One thing I am looking forward to in the ClassicPress World is the expansion of the number of ClassicPress specific plugins and their own repository. Currently there are not a lot of ClassicPress specific plugins but I do know it is going to grow and I’ll have to expand this segment then. Who knows, it could take over the whole show.
This week for ClassicPress I have:
News:
You can now listen to the Interview with James Nylen and Michelle Coe from ClassicPress Two of the Leads for the ClassicPress Team, Michelle Coe (lead designer), and James Nylen (lead developer) it is a great interview so follow the link to listen to it.
The ClassicPress Milestone v1.1.0 target date for release is Wednesday, July 24, 2019. We’ll be updating our GitHub milestone regularly as we prepare for the release – feel free to check in there or in the #core channel in Slack for updates.
General info:
Article from CodePotent
Streamline ClassicPress User Profile Pages with CSS
https://codepotent.com/streamline-classicpress-user-profile-pages-with-css/
Thanks to CodePotent for this tip on creating Free sandbox sites for ClassicPress
https://wpsandbox.net/?pkg=classicpress
For some up to date news on ClassicPress check out the ClassisPress Club news
I have started my experiment with migrating a fully mature WordPress website over to ClassicPress and record the results of that for people to see. The videos will start appearing on our YouTube channel in the coming week. I have completed the conversion of WP Plugins A to Z dev site to Classic press and the video will be posted in the next couple days. It went quite well and all my plugins have continued to work well.
ClassicPress Resources:
The ClassicPress Club
https://classicpress.club/
An alternate forum for the non-techies.
“Must Have” Plugins List
https://forums.classicpress.net/t/must-have-plugins-list/1163
To find a listing of ClassicPress specific plugins check out this link https://forums.classicpress.net/t/plugins-built-specifically-for-classicpress/1011?u=codepotent there is currently 37 plugins here and growing. I look forward to the day they have their own repository. I can still recall WP when it had a small repository.
Closing out this Episode the Plugins I covered were:
John’s Plugins: Tripetto – 4, Advanced Cron Manager – 4, WP-Optimize – 4
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